Cuff-holder.



PATENTED NOV. 13, 1906.

F. W. BARRETT.

CUFF HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY28,1904.

Qvil'mbmo a Her/wag of the wristband-placket, said buttonhole bea view showing my improved holder as applied detached. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional.

. UNITED STATES PATENT pron.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov- 13, 1906.

Application filed May 28, 1964. Serial No 210,204:-

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK BAR RETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark an State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Holders, 'of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to adjustable cuffholders, and has for its object to provide means whereb the cuff may be readily adjusted andhel so as to be exposed to a greater or less extent beyond the coat-sleeve while remainin in the same position with respect to the wristband of the shirt-sleeve to which it is attached. I

To these ends my invention consists in certain novel features,which I will nowproceed to describe and will then'particularly point out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is;

in use, a pprtion of thefabric of the shirt being removed'to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of astructure embodying my invention in one form. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. I 4 is a perspective view of one of the elements view of the casing or housing detached and on an enlarged scaie'. Fig. 6 1s a longitudinal sectional view of one end of the same, also on an enlarged scale. Fig. 7 is a sectional view, illustrating one mode of connecting the structure to the cuff; and Fig. '8 is a view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating a modification.

Referring to said drawings, 1 indicates the shirt-sleeve, having the usual Wristband 2, with buttonholes 3, said shirt-sleeve being provided at a point above the wristband'with a buttonhole 4, preferablyformed in one edge ing preferably so arranged as to extend longi-. tudinally of the shirt-sleeve.

5 indicates the cuff provided with the usual buttpnholes 6 for connecting it to the wristbanr The holder is composed of two relatively sliding members provided at or near their ends with engaging devices, preferably studs or buttons, for engaging the shirt-sleeve at one end and the wristband and cuff at the other, respectively, said engaging devices be- .move when a sufficient force the two relatively slidable members are represented, respectively, by the reference-numerals 7 and 8 and are inclosed and frictionallyheld within a casing or housing 9. The member 7, which is engaged with the shirt-sleeve 1, is'preferably rovided with a button or stud located on t e outer face of said'member near one end thereof, and comform of construction, which is that shown in Figs. 2 to 6, inclusive,

prising a shank 10 and a head 11, said head being preferably elongated in a direction transverse to the greatest length of the member 7 and relatively narrow. This form of button or stud is designed to cooperate with the buttonhole 4, formedin the placket of the shirt-sleeve and extendinglongitudinally of said. sleeve, so that the elongated head lies at right angles to thedirectionof elongation of the, buttonhole when engaged therewith, as shown in Fig. 1, and thus prevents accidental disengagement, which is more apt to occur at'this'point, owing to the fact that this portion of t e shirt-sleeve is not usually as stifl as the wristband or cufi. The member 8 is provided at or near its outer end with an enga and cuffi t e same being preferably in the form of a button or stud of any approved construction-such, for instance, as that shown, consisting of the shank 12 and head 13. The casing or housing 9 is so constructed as to grip and hold the relatively movable members in any position to which they may be adjusted, permitting them, however, to in excess of that to which they are subjected in ordinary use is applied to them for that purpose. To

effect this, I prefer to construct said housing of sheet metal having some resilience or elasticity, preferably sheet-brass, bent upon itself, as shown more particularly in Fig. 5,

.so as to form an inner slideway 14, in which the member 7 fits and moves, and. an outer slideway 15, in which the member 8 fits and moves. Said housing grips the members, 7

device to engage the wristband Q assess may be adjusted, g and. to efi'eot this I prefer to rou hen the inner face of the outer wall of each s ideway by formin transverse rib lil e rojections 16 therein,wl1ich may be readily formed by pressing the metal of said walls inward at suitable intervals, the grooves arising from this pressing operation being indicated by the reference-numeral 17. This rou honing when employed may, however, be lormed in any suitable way. Each of the members 7 and 8 is provided 'witha projection 18 to cooperate with the projec-- tions or roughened surface of the corres 0nding' slideway when suchroughened surl' zice is employed, and thisprojection may be readily formed by striking up the metal of which the sliding member is composed, as indicated in the drawings. 1 also provide stops to prevent the sliding members from being entirely withdrawn from the housing, and these are preferably formed in the manner shown in the drawings. Each of the members 7 and 8 has its inner extremity rbent u'pon itself, as indicated at 19,. thus forming a shoulder 20, and each of the slideways 14 and 15 has its outer wall provided with an extension in the direction in which the sliding member inclosed in said: slideway .projects,"which extension is bent back upon the wall within the Slideway, as indicated, at 21, forming a shoulder 22, with which the shoulder 20 will engage to prevent the slidin member from bemg entirely, withdrawn from the housing. The device thus constructed is applied in use by connecting the end .of'one member there oitin the resent instance the member 7) to.

theshi-rt-s eeve at a point some distance from the wristband, this being eifected'in the corn struction shown by engaging the button on the endof the member 7 with the buttonhole l of the. shirt-sleeve placlret. The button on theend of the member 8 is then engaged with the wristband and cuff by means of the button or engaging device on the end, of said membertl. This may be effected by passing said button through the buttonholes 3 of the; wristband and also through the buttonholes 6 of the end. Another and very'desirable way of .efiecting this engagement is illustrsted in 7, in which 23 indicates a studbutton provided with a recess in its base and with head-engaging mechanism cocperating withsaid recess to engage the head 11? of the button on the member An illustration of a studbutton of this type may be found in United States Letters Patent No. 673,698, granted May 7, 1901, to George W. Buchanan. llhis studbutton is enga ed with the button holes of the end and wit the head 13 in the; manner illustrated in Fig. 7, serving thereby to connect the cuii to the adjuster.

Cuff holders as heretofore constructed have not been devised as to maintain the in permanent relation with regard to the wristband of, the shirt-sleeve, thev adjust ment being effected between the cud and shirt-sleeve directly or between the cull and coat-sleeve, so that when the cult is adjusted for a short exposure thereof beyond the coatsleeve'the wristband is apt to project and show prominently, while adjustment of the cuff for a longer exposure beyond the coatsleeve is apt to cause the wristband toslip out at the rear end of the cuff, thus spoiling the set of the cuif and discommoding the wearer. These objections are obviated by the construction which I have devised, in which the adjuster not only so holds the cuff relatively to the shirt-sleeve as to give the desired exposure thereof beyond the coatsleeve, but also holds the end and wristband in proper permanent relation throughout the range of adjustment, preventing exposure or slipping out of the Wristband.

Another material advantage of my construction is that the adjustment of the parts may be eilectedyely readily and without the necessity of even pulling up the coat-sleeve to get at the adjuster. If it is desired to shorten the adjuster to decrease the exposure, this may beeffected through the coat-sleeve by pressing the thumb against one end of the adjuster and one or more ofthe fingers of the same hand against the other end, whereupon the members 7 and 8 may be slid toward each other in the housing by the pressure thus applied thereto until the adjuster-is shortened up so as to give the desired exposure of the cuff. The amount of cull exposed may be.

increased with equal simplicity by simply gras ing the end of the cuff and pulling it out unti it is exposed to the desired extent, the members 7 and 8 yielding and sliding in the housing to extend the adjuster to the moss sary length. Thus the adjuster can be short? sued by a mere pressure of the thumb and forefinger on the ends thereof, andlengthsued by merely pullingthe cuff but the frictional engagement of the sliding members is suiiicient to hold-the parts in any position to which they may be thus adjusted against any disturbing force to which theymay be. subjected inordinary use. It will be understood, of course, that the buttonholes 3 and 4 in the wristband and placket, respectively, are arranged, preferably, at such a distance apart when separated to the farthest degree of separation of which they are capable as to be then at a distance from each other substantially'equal to the maximum distance betweenthe engaging devices by means of which the cud-holder is engaged with said buttonholes. When the cuff-holder is up plied and thezparts are thus separated to the maximum distance, the adjustment takes place in the manner already described and hole 4 may be separated by the adjusting movement hereinbefore described, so as to adjust the position of the cuff. The buttonho e 4 in the placket is provided for the special purpose of attaching the adjustable andholder hereinbefore described, and the maximum distance between the buttonholes 3 and 4 must be greater than the minimum distance between the engaging devices at the ends of the cuff-holder. In Fig. 1 of the drawings the cuff-holder-is shown extended to practically the maximum distance permitted by the maximum amount of separation of which the buttonholes of the wrist band and placket are capable in the particular construction there chosen for purposes of illustration. x v

- The form of holder shown in Figs. 2 to 6, inclusive, has the advanta e of giving a wide range of adjustment, equalpractically to the length of the housing and of the two sliding members 7 and 8. A simpler'form of less but efficient range of adjustment is illustrated in Fig. 8, in which the housing (here indicated by the reference-numeral 24) constitutes one of the sliding members, being provided with a stud or button 25 upon its outer face'and having a single slideway 26 to receive a sliding member 27, having a stud or button 28 on its outer face.

It will of course be understood that any approved form of engaging device ma be substituted forthe studs or buttons, an various other modifications will readily suggest themselves, so that I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself strictly to the precise details of construction hereinbefore described, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new,'and desire to Letters Patent,is-

- 1. An. adjustable cuff-holder com rising a casing or housing of resilient meta havin secure by one side roughened, a bar adapted to slide in v said housing, anon-resilient projection on said bar adapted to engage the rough side of said resilient housing, and meanscarried by said housing and said bar'for engaging the parts to be connected, substantially as described. V

w 2. An adjustable cufl' holder com a casing or housing of resilient meta transverse projections formed on one side thereof, a bar adapted. to move in said resilient housfling, a -non-resilient projection on said bar adapted to engage the projections on said resilient housing, and means-carried by said housing and said bar for engaging the parts to be connected, substantiall as described.

3. An adjustable cuff-hol er comprising a casing or housing formed of resilient sheet meta slideways, the walls whereof are internally roughened or serrated, the ends of said casing being bent to form stops, and a slidable bar fitting each slideway, each bar being formed of a at metal strip having a projection to cooperate with the roughened surface of its way, having one end bent to form a stop, and provided on the other and projecting end with means for engaging one of the parts to be held, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofl aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK W. BARRETT. Witnesses:

E. O. HAGAN, IRVINE MILLER.

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